He found Julia very pale, supported and
consoled by Mr. Hurd. He was congratulating her on her escape from a
dangerous maniac.
She rose and tottered away from him to her brother and clung to him. He
said what he could to encourage her, then deposited her in an arm-chair
and went upstairs; he soon satisfied himself Alfred was not in the house.
On this he requested Dr. Wolf and his men to leave the premises. The
doctor demurred. Edward insisted, and challenged him to show a
magistrate's warrant for entering a private house. The doctor was obliged
to own he had none. Edward then told the policemen they were engaged in
an illegal act; the police had no authority to take part in these
captures. Now the police knew that very well; but, being handsomely
bribed, they had presumed, and not for the first time, upon that
ignorance of law which is deemed an essential part of a private citizen's
accomplishments in modern days. In a word, by temper and firmness, and a
smattering of law gathered from the omniscient _'Tiser,_ Edward cleared
his castle of the lawless crew. But they paraded the street, and watched
the yard till dusk, when its proprietor ran rusty and turned them out.
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